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...standout. He is a "slightly out of step" member of England's most brilliant nonconformist family. His late father, Isaac, a deeply cultivated man who raised his family on Edmund Burke and amused himself by reading the Bible in Greek, was a Liberal Party member of Ramsay MacDonald's 1931 coalition Cabinet. His brother Dwight was a Liberal M.P., and another brother, Michael, is the enfant terrible of Labor's left wing. "We liked to work to the rule, 'Let not the left Foot know what the right Foot doeth,' " cracks Hugh. Yet the family...
...Smith sees it, the best history of the Revolution was written by a participant, David Ramsay, in the decade after the war. Ramsay concluded that the chief cause of the Revolution was implicit in the Stamp Act: the British Parliament wanted more power over the colonies than the colonies were willing to allow. But later historians were not content with this sensible explanation. George Bancroft turned the war into a moral crusade for freedom and made poor old bumbling George III a sinister villain. Arthur Schlesinger Sr. saw the war as a class struggle in which colonial merchants were pitted...
...favorite targets on the Opposition benches. Ramsay MacDonald was "the boneless wonder," Clement Attlee was "a sheep in sheep's clothing." When the postwar Labor government began measuring its home-building program in terms of "accommodation units," Churchill sang mockingly: "Accommodation unit, sweet accommodation unit, there's no place like accommodation unit...
...Tetu and Dave Kuhn are adequate triple jumpers by mortal standards, but can't compete with the likes of Chris Ohiri. Allen and Kuhn should fall to Ohiri and Aggrey Awori in the broad jump, and Army sprinters Bob Ramsay and Jim Jenkins may do no better than third and fourth against the same pair...
...indictments stemmed from incidents which occurred when three Birmingham schools were desegregated beginning Sept. 4. Pickets appeared at West End High School, Ramsay High School and Graymont Elementary School...